Short-term rental
industry landscape by AJL
We publish our STR Landscape annually to provide industry leaders with up-to-date technology providers that support all corners of the diverse STR market,
The short-term rental management is at its best with the perfect combination of hospitality, technology service provider and investors. Mapping it out began as an initiative to visualize a fragmented, yet rapidly evolving and growing industry. Resulting in the largest ever published and most definitive short-term rental industry landscape, we have mapped 450+ of the most important companies in the industry.
Next to listing the top property management companies, we mapped leading technology and service providers.
We publish our STR Landscape annually to provide industry leaders with up-to-date technology providers that support all corners of the diverse STR market,
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Glossary
STR: Short-Term Rental
CM: Channel Manager
PMS: Property Management Solution
RM: Revenue Management Solution
Cross-Over: Solutions servicing the Hotel and STR industry
OTAs: Online Travel Agency
KYC: Know your customer
Key findings from the short-term rental industry landscape:
Skift’s CEO Rafat Ali has notably coined the blurring lines between the short-term rentals and hotel industry as the “Great Merging.”
Since then, PMS vendors have recognized this dynamic as well and have been quick to provide the flexibility to service both sides of this coin. This can be seen not only in the respective logos marketed on vendor websites, but also in their integration suites that now include hotel-focused point solutions.The PMS category is the most competitive with 150+ providers.
The Guest Experience category has shown the fastest growth with new providers and solutions that streamline communications and enhancing the guest stay.
We have assembled 400+ providers clustered in 22 subcategories summarizing the best short-term rental technology, based on our intimate knowledge of the industry.
AJL Atelier maintains active links with a technology database of over 150+ providers. Do you know about a technology provider that you think should be added to the landscape? Let us know and we will evaluate it with you – we’re always keen to test the latest!